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Organ Trafficker: How I Get Poor People’s Kidneys | CRIMINAL PLANET

We meet a human organ trafficker who reveals exactly how he convinces poor people to sell a kidney.

CRIMINAL PLANET is a documentary series investigating organized crime's worrying expansion in our global age.

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Unedited YouTube Transcript

yes three guys how big is your team
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and they include doctors this is part of your team why do you go after the poor people to get their kids there's a plenty of
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plenty of Assad that he came looking for the American dream and the stuff in here they don't have jobs they don't have nothing but here so I'll talk to them and um
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I'm happy people
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the Oregon trafficker tells me that he pays off corrupt medical staff to get lists of kidney patients in U.S hospitals if they're interested in this service they have to send him a blood sample so your U.S clients going back to the U.S because that's what I'm really curious about so you have Arizona California Nevada
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Oklahoma once the doctor and his Gang has tested the sample he scours the streets of Mexicali for homeless migrants whose blood is compatible with the American client he lets us follow him as he preys on the most vulnerable
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again
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I found out about his money
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no no
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um
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foreign people can live with one kidney but it's a highly complicated surgery only the most desperate would place their life in the hands of a black market surgeon
[Music] organ trafficking is a hideous crime for the facilitators this is just business they see these people as money you know and because they're vulnerable because there's nobody to defend them there many of these people are also tricked into it they will yeah even tell them you're young you know your your kidney will will grow back which is obviously is a medical impossibility I mean there's there's there are so many risks involved with these illegal surgeries that are performed in in places that sometimes aren't even hospitals in places you know where there's no hygiene a lot of these people may become sick it can also be deadly but kidney can be solved with a hundred thousand dollars and then the money that the migrant the poor people get are a tiny fraction of that so most of the money is left with the facilitator and a surgeon it takes a network to develop this type of organ trade and it's always almost always across borders because in order for a facilitator of this organ harvesting business to be successful to make money they need to operate between rich countries and poorer countries or conflict areas and economies that are stable because this is where the money is
thank you